Governance

Governance

Create Pockets of Tourist Excellence

INDIA is a great destination from the tourism perspective. From Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Somnath to Nagaland, India has everything to offer...

Governance

Exercise in futility

On October 9, 2018, The Economic Times carried a front-page article under the headline ‘Pay Tax, Get Rewards from the Govt’. It shows...

Governance

Academic autocracy and authoritarianism?

Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics...

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Governance

CENTRAL BUREAU OF IRONY

IRONY was writ large when the government took the unprecedented midnight step of sending the CBI director and his Number 2 on leave...

Governance

Mutual Benefit Club

THIS is the story about the six-degrees-of-separation principle. In personal lives, one can link with anyone anywhere in the globe through six links—A...

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Governance

Oil & Gas: Why settle for ‘Sell in India’, when you can ‘Make in India!’

For every barrel of oil produced in India, the government earns more than 50 per cent of revenue through royalty, cess, profit petroleum;...

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Governance

Massive Army, Miniscule Spending

Increasing the Expenditure on Defence Services The Committee notes that India with its strategic location, with a coastline of about 7,500 km and...

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Governance

ROYALTY ‘Rules’

INDIA has been a victim of economic exploitation for centuries before we attained independence in 1947. This drain of wealth was so exploitative...

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Governance

Short sighted smugness

THE letter from a retiring Chief of Army Staff to the Prime Minister that made headlines in March 2012 calling attention of the...

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Governance

UN-MADE IN INDIA

THE Estimates Committee under Murli Manohar Joshi recently presented the 29th Report on “Defence Forces Preparedness: Production and Procurement” to the 16th Lok...